Pre-errate Polymerization where it technically didn't do anything, and basically said "it can fuse 2 monsters for a fusion monster"

I wish Tongue Twister had a really confusing effect.

Japanese yugioh players refer to confusing card texts and rulings as "written in Konmai (Konami) language". It's so god damn convoluted it's like they're written in different language!

These confusing rules remind me of yugioh duel monsters season 1 duels, before any rules were officially made in the anime

Pole position creates the sickest dances out there as shown in your top 5 illegal moves

2:06 IDK why, but I find hilarious that you say "attack" for like 10 times

Shout out to mask of restrict for NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION, and Reverse Trap for having more confusing post errata text.

I had Kotodama, for the longest time I thought it's effect was to destroy other cards with the same name as it. So it could only destroy other Kotodama's and it seemed pretty lame haha

Problem with Power Frame (at least for an extremely casual player like me) is just how many times variations of the word “attack” and its abbreviation show up in its text. The easiest way to make an explanation sound more complicated than it really is, is to repeat the same word within it over and over again.

Cards like these are the reason I love how Magic: The Gathering works. There's a specific templating and syntax to card effects to eliminate as much confusion as possible. Granted, there's quite a few older cards like Oubliette and Animate Dead that are rather convoluted, almost every newer card is written in a way that's incredibly simple to follow and understand. You rarely need to know anything beyond what's just written out on the card.

I assumed twin-headed behemoth came back once per behemoth, as he had two heads, 'dying' was just cutting off one head and lowering its power, then killing it again sealed its fate.

As a non-yugioh player. This list could cover every card. Its all confusing

some more confusing cards: at least half the Custom Cards that people have made.

So basically a lot of the trouble with pole position could be fixed if they errata it to say "Original ATK"?

This is a good reason to test these cards out in the video games, because there there's less ambiguity as to what they actually do

Top 10 deck with unique ways to play. For example koa'ki meru

Inspektor Boarder explicitly states, that "If an effect's activation was negated, it still counts towards the total". The fact you got it wrong while directly talking about that sentence just shows how deserved it's spot is

Imagine activating mystical refpanel on your opponent pot of desire. XD that will be sick.

Man, sometimes my head spins from reading some card effects. No wonder this game can get so confusing.

Magnet Reverse pisses me off so much, because you can't use it to special summon Valkyrion if it was summoned via Delta the Magnet Warrior's effect. Sincerely, A salty Duel Links player.

Given the topic of this video, how about "Top 10 Pre-Errata Card Texts?" Shout-out to Man-Eater Bug, who does not regard position.

Gotta side deck them vicious claws for the sky striker matchup

Drinking game, take a shot everytime you hear "Target" and "Attack" while playing 3 copies of Power Frame

Magnet Reverse is simple in effect in a game without proper special summoning, but extra complicated with it.

When Kaiba uses any of these cards.. *It Just Works*

No Bait Doll? That thing was a mindfuck for younger me.

Magnet Reverse...f***ing MAGNET REVERSE. I laughed out loud for a solid minute. Vicious Claw Exodius combo deck lets goooooo

If the card is banished from the graveyard it can’t be summoned by Magnet Reverse, because it doesn’t remember that it was properly summoned 😂. The card doesn’t remember

Without even watching the vid, number 1 must be Pot of Greed.

NOTHING is confusing when DuelLogs is around! 😃

Honorable mention: gemini monsters. After having playied for years a gemini deck, I now know what they do, but the first time I unpacked the deck, as a gift from my friends, I was so confused that I really didn't know how they worked. For those unfamiliar: gemini monsters are treated as Normal Monsters (or Vanilla Monsters, to understand) while on the field or in the graveyard. If they are on the field, you can use your normal summon of the turn to instead give one of your gemini monster a second effect, which is usually pretty good. It's a fun deck, but still, I had to compare with all my friends at the time to understand how they worked

Back when I played, the card I remember always causing a ton of confusion at tournaments (partly because I had a friend who used the thing) was Pyro Clock of Destiny. Pretty much every event we went to, at some point a judge would need to be called over regarding the card, and even then different judges would sometimes say different things about how the card works.

Ah yes Kotodama, I used to get a lot of these and that stupid zebra when I wasted all my saved allowance to buy a magic ruler (I think) box.

I'm kinda surprised Charm of Shabti didn't get on this list, given it had to be Errata'd TWICE in order for it to finally make sense and say what it actually does.

I really like to watch your videos when I'm chilling in my bed. Really good content man :)

I love this channel, I hope you continue to cover old cards and grow :D

There was a card that was rarely used (though i liked to use it because when i was a kid i didn't know about meta-decking) called Kaiser Colosseum. Every single saturday someone at my locals would try to argue about what the card actually did, and each time we'd have to bring over our card shop owner and sort it out, and most of the time we both got the distinct feeling noone really knew exactly what the rule was, but we just went by what the shop owner said. Basically it says if you control a monster, then your opponent cannot place any monster on their field exceeding how many monsters you have. (although at the time of placing the card down, monsters on the field are unaffected). It was a continuous field? spell. Now does this mean if i put the card on the field, then put a monster down the next turn, will monsters summoned during their phase after the card was on the field be destroyed but not the ones on the field before i placed it down? Does it mean that no cards are ever destroyed when you finally control a monster on your turn? What about chain special summoning effects? How do they resolve backwards with different amounts of monster on my side of the field? It was a rulings nightmare, and if you read the card effect it clearly says monsters placed on the field BEFORE THIS CARDS! activation, meaning basically if they summon extra monsters while its still on the field i can force them to destroy down to 1 by just summoning on my next turn. But that also didn't seem fair, and also does the opponent get to choose which monsters then if they're all equally able to be destroyed? Probably right? Or is it you? What happens when you try to summon a monster, does the judge have to just say you can't? Or does the monster get destroyed and sent to the graveyard? (which can be helpful for people to intentionally use this card to have done) Or does the card not ever allow any monster to be destroyed by its effect, and its purely a negate the action entirely like i said. was absolute bonkers playing that card, and after a month i took it out of my deck, not because i didn't want to play the card, but because it just felt annoying having to burden everyone with rulings.

According to the rulings page on the wiki, you totally can special summon XYZ Dragon Cannon using Magnet Reverse if it gets banished from your grave. In general, I don't think that a card being banished from the grave forgets that it was properly special summoned; I don't think anything can make that be forgotten. If it is really is great PSCT, Silent Wobby's effect text is a great argument that PSCT needs some work; also, Snoww, Unlight of Dark World helps too.

I found myself in an infinite loop watching your old videos which lead me to your new videos which led me to your old videos that I’ve already watched and then the cycle repeats

I really fucking love your content man, anything Yu-Gi-Oh is my shit, I grew up with it. but I honestly feel like your the only yugi-tuber that is consistent, pls keep it up my man

Great video, I still remember the first time I tried to read inspector boarder and my brain shutdown. It's such a simple effect yet worded in such a confusing way. By the way, I love the fact that you now have a little poll to choose the topic of the next top 10, I'm specially curious about how you'd tacle the 10 monsters that would break duel links. There's a lot of obvious choices like Raigeki or MST, which would be insanse on duel links, or modern good cards like Prankratops, thanos dragon or ghost girl handtraps, but I feel it wouldn't be as entertaining as hearing about cards that aren't really doing anything on the TCG or OCG but would shake Duel Links meta really hard.

18:02, In other words it's one of those cards that can potentially keep your opponent from playing the game, which is basically the only way to play Yu-Gi-Oh these days.

Hey DuelLogs, my name is Leo and I’m from Germany. But you are the KZfaq I watch the most, so I wish that you would make videos to every deck that exists only that I don’t have to worry about running out of videos that I can see. So stay on KZfaq, make as mutch videos as possible .. oh and please make a Video abound Endymion! Thanks to you that you exist and to every KZfaq server with contains a video from you! Xd

your videos are really relaxing i love you man!

Number 1- the old Scapegoat text. "You cannot special summon during this turn. Special summon 4 sheep tokens in defense position." Technically, you should not be allowed to special summon the 4 tokens since the first part of the card says you cannot special summon this turn haha.

I miss the simpler days of Yu-Gi-Oh.

17:58 Not all hand traps are monsters. Some Spell and Trap cards can also be activated from your hand in your opponent’s turn, for example Typhoon.

Inspector Boarder is mostly confusing because it arbitrarily ignores several monster card types for no real reason. It only counts extra deck monster types plus rituals while ignoring normal monsters, effect monsters, flip monsters, spirit monsters, gemini monsters, and union monsters. Even if we only went by different colored cards as being different types its still ignoring normal and effect monsters.

Wait, but doesn't Inspector Boarder count negated effects? "If an effect's activation was negated, it still counts toward the total for that turn."

I think you should've done a Top 10k cards with confusing effects

This was a fun video. I love your ideas !

Awesome video! Love your content :)

I understood Silent Wobby the moment I laid eyes on it; I watched GX's Bronn episode where he gave Jaden "Ceruli, Guru of Dark World", making Bronn discard Reign-Beaux. I even play Ceruli in my Dark World side deck.

It’s not quite as bad as the cards you listed here, but look up the rulings for “A deal with the Dark ruler”, and that one has some awkward wording as well.

I would love a video on pole position, I've never heard of it before!

I read Power Frame's effect recently and it made sense to me, but that wasn't the first time I read it lol. I found it in my deck that I used years ago, so I probably understood its effect. I'm pretty sure it was confusing to me when I first read it. RIP to the opponents I used that card against in the past that didn't understand it lmao. Didn't expect this card to be on this list, but after listening to it, I understand why.

I feel like Pole Position could be easily fixed by changing the text to "The monster with the highest original attack"

No jar or pot of greed really disappointed Just kidding nice video keep up the good work

Thank you for telling me about magnet reverse. I run xyz, and i could definitely use a card like that

As far as I know a monster doesn't 'forget' that it it is properly summoned if it moves among the graveyard, banished zone and the field. So a previosly properly summoned monster in the GY remains properly summoned if it is banished. Same applies if the monster is revived from the GY and then send back to the GY (or if it is banished). It 'loses' it's properly summoned status if the card is bounced from the field, GY or banished zone to the hand, main deck or extra deck.

How about 10 cards that got powercrept by cards just as old as them or older. Like how Amazoness Brawler was powercrept by Amazoness Swordswoman. Who doesn’t just negate battle damage but reflects it and has more def points.

I love how in a video about confusing card effects you make a mistake regarding inspector boarder. In your onscreen text and your talking you say that that "negated effects dont count towards the total" when boarder litterally reads "if an effects activation was negated it still counts towards the total."

Prohibition should be on this list. It has a very unique effect. Plus it gets debated every time it’s used.

pole position's loop is the simpliest to solve. when it goes into play and causes a loop the first action of the loop is the only one recognized. done.

Wait, doesn't it say that Inspector Boarder DOES count negated effects too?

You should do an Ancient Gear top 10 card S video!!

Top 10 life point gain or burn effects that are useful in duels. That is something I would like to see

Nice vid DuelLogs!

Im a simple man. Duel Logs uploads a video, I leave a thumbs up. Keep up the great work brother.

6:30 Once per turn claws.

I was floored after number 10, oh god. the rest of this video is prolly incredible

I was expecting Kaiser Collosseum to be here too and take the 1st place on this list That's a good way to subvert expectations sir xD

I've gotta ask- has Konomi just forgotten that Normal monsters are a type of Monster XD?!

C'mon we all knew inspector border would be here,cause I bet when you first saw it you were like: excuse me what the hell does this mean ?

Power Frame is not really confusing: it just pretty much ties your monster with your opponent's after canceling the attack. Not a bad card, but not difficult to get over.

Vicious Claw sounds meaningless but have this in mind. You can activate this card and equip a monster your opponent controls, then with a monster you control battle and force the activation. Since the equip card is on your side you can bounce it and then destroy the equipped monster because in the bare minimum is going to be the only legitimate target for destruction (because your own monster is protected by the equip card clause) After that you burn your opponent an then give him the token. In some points the cards sounds “decent with the proper setup.”

The text of the last card in this list said that "negated effects still count" but you said the opposite. Was it intended?

Need bachelor degree to play this game hehehe...

I’d love to see some Duel Links specific videos! You’re by far my favorite YuGiOh KZfaqr

Inspector boarder still hurts my head, I guess there is a reason it took the whole movie for inspector gadget to finally master his.gogogadjets

Kaiser Colosseum should have made the list. It was banned in the TCG for being a ruling nightmare

Thanks to Duel Links Lave Golem isn’t on the List!

.......It's stuff like these cards that make me glad things like YGOPro or the video games exist

Great list!

I'm sorry, can you say that again? I don't think I understood it correctly.

2:30 he is speaking the language of the gods.

You already know Engraver of the Mark should be on this list somewhere since you threw his artwork in right at the end!

@TheDuelLogs, that card definitely states that negated effect activations _do_ count toward the total for that turn.

Number one should be Pot Of Greed.

There is this card “pot of greed“. I am still not sure what its effect allows me to do.

You should do a video on the older written cards like poly cause they had really stupid card text

Raiza the Mega Monarch. You target 1 card on the field and a card in either GY, and if you tributed a Wind monster you get to target another card on the field. Shuffle the first target(s) on top of the deck in any order, then return the additional target (if any) to the hand. It's confusing because you have to read it very carefully to know which cards go where. Because there's no comma, the card on the field and GY that are first targets are the referred to in the effect, while the "additional target" is the 2nd card on the field that's selected. Which is confusing in and of itself because most cards with multiple effects behave differently depending on where something is when it's targeted. Like destroying a targeted card when it's on the field but *discarding* when a targeted card is in the _hand_ instead. Whereas Raiza's effect not only has two targets from two different parts of the board that get the same effect, but a *third* target with a completely _separate_ effect. It's easy to think that the 2 cards on the field get placed on top of the deck while the one in the GY returns to the hand.

TOP 10 ANIME CARDS THAT HAVENT BEEN RELEASED IN THE TCG

I would say the Winged Dragon of Ra has a confusing effect for most players that are casual, because they come with the idea that the card works like the anime

Also, holy shit, the 2000 attack level 4 monsters got a lot better when I wasn't looking; Inspector Boarder is a powerful floodgate with 2000 defense, a far cry from the days of JIrai Gumo and Cave Dragon and Berserk Gorilla and Dark Elf and the like...

Pole position would be fixed just by adding once per turn so it doesn't change targets till the next turn.

"Top 10 MTG card Effects that would be broken in/break Yugioh.

Okay but what about pot of greed?

I was hoping for Pot of Greed to be on this list :D

The silent wobby explanation reminds me of why I love equip cards, especially if they allow piercing damage like Big bang shot or meteor. Control is key. Even if your opponent controls the monster your equip spell is on, the owner controls the actual card and it's effect and then applies literally by text. If I equip my opponents monster with Big bang shot it gains 400 ATK and if it attacks my defense position monster inflicts piercing damage to my opponents life points. And I literally mean it damages my opponents life points because I control the card and it's effect despite being equipped to the opponents monster.